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Maybe decades or centuries from now people will really get used to what's
now considered extremely dissonant and things like Xenakis will seem
average.


> Art was meant to comunicate something, wasn't it??  Not communicating is
> failure , not reason to be proud.

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Philip Sherburne wrote:

> Yes, but to "communicate" something, you need someone prepared to
> receive or interpret it. Joyce's "Ulysses," for instance, may be
> communicating something, but only to those open to it. Ditto
> L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry, which to most readers would come across as
> gibberish.

Right. Well put.


Andrei